State budget filled with hidden taxes, Malliotakis says
The state budget approved by the Democratic-dominated state legislature over the weekend contains several items that are, in effect, taxes on hardworking New Yorkers, Republican Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis charged.
“More and more New Yorkers are leaving the state and this budget is an example of why,” Malliotakis told this newspaper a few days before the state’s $175 billion spending package was finalized in Albany.
Malliotakis, who represents parts of Bay Ridge and Staten Island, said that ever since she was first elected to the state Assembly in 2010, she has always kept a critical eye out for government waste and unnecessary financial burdens on taxpayers.